Headteacher
Trythall Community Primary School, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 8XR9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L9-L15
What skills and experience we're looking for
What skills and experience we're looking for
Trythall Community Primary School is a small, family school set in a beautiful, rural location and is well regarded in the community.
Our current Headteacher will be retiring after 16 years. We are looking for a leader who is an outstanding practitioner and will be able to continue to empower the children and enable them to reach their full potential in all areas of their learning and their lives.
The successful candidate will be:
- An inspirational educator who will support our distinctive and inclusive vision and ethos
- An outstanding teacher who models excellence throughout the school community and works collaboratively with the staff and governors
- An innovative and strategic thinker with the commitment, drive and ability to add value to a dedicated team, as well as being open to doing things differently
- Able to lead, motivate, challenge and inspire staff and pupils to have a love of learning and to achieve their best
- An excellent communicator with outstanding interpersonal and organisational skills
What the school offers its staff
What the school offers its staff
Trythall can offer you:
- A happy school with a genuinely engaged community of staff, parents/carers and governors
- A warm, welcoming, inclusive environment with a team of dedicated professionals with a wealth of experience and special skills to share
- Children who are eager to learn, have a positive attitude and enjoy coming to school
- A learning environment where each child’s educational and emotional welfare are the top priorities for a team committed to doing their very best for every child
- “Exceptional outdoor facilities” (Ofsted)
- Opportunities to grow, to be stretched, and develop as a leader and as a person
Trythall has a strong ethos and a commitment to learning outside the classroom, engaging with nature and understanding our place in the environment. We have an open-minded approach to what we do and a different ‘feel’ to more traditional schools.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to headships@cornwall.gov.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Trythall Community Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 64 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- secretary@trythall.cornwall.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01736 362021
Arranging a visit to Trythall Community Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email secretary@trythall.cornwall.sch.uk.
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